Example sentences of "sort of men [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are the sort of men whose confidence may have suffered and who may come forward . |
| 2 | These are the sort of men we need — not some half-baked internal appointment . |
| 3 | Having dealt with these it was safe to lump everyone else together as what Smith dismissed as ‘ the fourth sort of men which do not rule ’ , i.e. day labourers , poor husbandmen , merchants and retailers , copyholders and artificers . |
| 4 | Besides those who waited to journey together there were others who came up out of the forest alone and who seemed to belong there , men licensed by the Lord Warden to carry on their trade in certain parts of the forest , woodmen , trappers , charcoal burners , for the most part a silent surly sort of men who emerged from the forest , went briefly about their business , had little to say for themselves , and then disappeared into the solitude again . |
| 5 | The intention in discussing this second class of mufti , the " important provincial muftis or , more strictly , muderris/muftis , is essentially simply to point out their existence and to give a very rough idea of the nature of the class and of the sort of men who held these posts . |